Yaakov Wider, a member of the Bnei Brak City Council and chairman of the Likud faction, submitted today (Thursday) a motion to order an urgent discussion in the City Council, following a series of serious shortcomings by the municipality in its conduct during the fighting - and especially after the direct missile strike in the heart of a residential neighborhood in the city of Torah and Hasidism.
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According to Wider, "failed, negligent and at times reckless conduct was revealed on the part of the municipality - in everything related to emergency preparedness, orderly evacuation and providing a humane response to the victims - physically, mentally and communally. While the other authorities were functioning, anarchy, lack of coordination and neglect of residents prevailed in Bnei Brak.".
Wieder claims that this is one of the richest municipalities in Israel, with a record number of municipal employees – and in real time, it collapsed.
According to him, serious questions are being raised about the evacuation procedure, the selection of hotels without protection, the lack of transparency, the discriminatory distribution of vouchers and grants - and the lack of a functioning municipal emergency management team.
Among the questions that Weider would like to have answered:
• Was an urban evacuation procedure implemented and who was responsible for it? How many were evacuated, where, and based on what criteria?
• Why were residents evacuated to hotels without protection?
• What answers were actually given, and why was no data released to the public?
• Where was the municipal police – and why were residents forced to chase after businessmen to get answers?
According to the council member, "This is not how a city behaves during an emergency. This is not how leadership elected to serve the public behaves. I demand an immediate discussion and a clear response. The residents of Bnei Brak deserve answers – not slogans.""
According to the law, Mayor Hanoch Seibert must bring the proposal up for discussion at the next council meeting.
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